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Social structures of direct democracy : on the political economy of equality /
In Social Structures of Direct Democracy John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making strong empirical arguments for radical transformation toward direct democracy by filling positions of political and economic authority with randomly selected citizens.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 68. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social Structures of DirectDemocracy; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theory, Praxis, and Change; The Ragged Edge of Anarchy: Direct Democracy; Mutualism; Collectivism; Communist Anarchism; Conflict Theory; Why Capitalism Must Always Collapse; The Relationship between Change and Radicalism; Structural Limitations to Change; Insurrection versus Revolution; A Case Study in Political Revolution: Egypt; Does Direct Democracy Require Small-scale Societies?; McDonald's Iron Cage; 2 Relations of Authority; The Fraud of Representative Democracy.
- The Best Democracy Money Can BuyStealing Democracy Old School; Political Parties; A Path to Direct Democracy; Economic Authority; Political Authority; Constitution; 3 Material Relations; Economic Utilities of Direct Democracy; Markets and Prices; Currency, Income, Banking, and Credit; Profit and Worker-owned Firms; Authority over Productive Property; Innovation and Small Business; Relations of Consumption; Income Distribution; Regulated Labor Markets: Hiring Halls; Distribution of Productive Property; Resource Use; What to Produce; How to Produce; Can the System Adapt?; 4 Social Structure.
- Culture and Social IntegrationOrganizing Principles of Social Structure; Social Statuses; Social Roles; Virtual Worlds; Institutions and Socialization; Religion; Family and Sexuality; Education; The Means of Violence; Compulsion and Discipline; Journalism; The Social Network: The Future that Can be Now; Conclusion: No Islands of Egalitarianism in a Sea of Inequality; Afterword: What Can Grow in the Graveyard for Orthodoxies?; Bibliography; Index.